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2002-03 Season WOWS Critics and DELIGHTS Audiences!
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Julius Caesar
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June 26 - July 13, 2003 - The Austin Playhouse
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Austin Critic's Table Award Nominations
Outstanding Ensemble Performance
Outstanding Costume Design, PAN Architextures
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama, Monika Bustamante - Marc Antony
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama, Babs George - Cassius
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"Stealing the show, and the entire empire, is Monika Bustamante's Marc Antony. Cold and distant at first, yet honestly freaked out at the murder of her friend and boss, Bustamante's Antony brilliantly makes the transition from terrified survivor to calculating dominator."
- Robi Polgar, The Austin Chronicle
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Henry V
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April 24th - May 11th 2003 - The Austin Playhouse
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Austin Critic's Table Award Nominations
Outstanding Production of a Drama
Outstanding Director of a Drama, Guy Roberts
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama, Guy Roberts
Outstanding Costume Design, Buffy Manners
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B. Iden Payne Award Nominations
Outstanding Production of a Drama, Winner
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama, Guy Roberts
Outstanding Costume Design, Buffy Manners
Outstanding Sound Design, Austin Taiko
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"Austin Shakespeare Festival has crowned its 19-year history with its finest show to date. Guy Roberts' staging of Shakespeare's Henry V is lean, smart and charged with dramatic action...At the center of the show was Roberts' as Henry, at turns tentative, cunning, fierce, chastened, flirtatious and forceful...his performance fired this production, his direction made it sing and his leadership has borne Austin Shakespeare from the margins to the forefront of Austin theater."
- Michael Barnes, Austin-American Statesman
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"Fast-paced and executed with split second timing, this production is nothing if not intense…With confidence and grandeur, the warrior-king exhorts his men to greatness…the real winners were the playgoers who witnessed a most dynamic production of Henry V"
- Mel Meeks, Shakespeare Bulletin
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Produced by The Austin Playhouse in association with ASF
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January 17th - February 16th, 2003 - The Austin Playhouse
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Austin Critic's Table Award Nominations
Outstanding Production of a Comedy
Outstanding Director of a Comedy, Guy Roberts
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Paul Norton
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Mary Agen-Cox
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Babs George
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Bernadette Nason, Winner
Outstanding Costume Design, Buffy Manners
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B. Iden Payne Award Nominations
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Comedy, Bernadette Nason, Winner
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"The Merry Wives of Windsor is big on comedy -- and big comedy at that…It would be so easy for all this big comedy to go awry. One mistimed gag, one slightly overwrought reaction, one momentary lag in pace, and all the humor could collapse like a house of cards. But as in those TV and film comedies of the Fifties and Sixties,… [the actors] firm grasp of character, their crisp sense of timing, their connection with the audience turn this cleverly imagined frolic into a sizable pleasure."
- Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle
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Twelfth Night or What You Will
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September 6th - 22nd, October 3rd - 6th 2002
Sheffield Hillside Theatre, Zilker Park
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September 26th - 28th 2002
Alma Thomas Theatre, Southwestern University, Georgetown
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Austin Critic's Table Award Nominations
Outstanding Director of a Comedy, Guy Roberts
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy, Paul Norton
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B. Iden Payne Award Nominations
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy, Paul Norton
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Comedy, Bernadette Nason
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"Jill Blackwood, as the cross-dressing Viola, embodies the romantic condition, with features like a dew-kissed rose…Rick Roemer plays…the obsessed Orsino, with handsome dignity and precision…Yet the juiciest scenes belong to…the city's most accomplished Shakespearean actor, Paul Norton… [who] plays Malvolio with stiff neck and stiffer hair, sniffing and speaking waxily…With Roberts at the helm, the company is positioning itself to become among the most capable Shakespeareans in the state."
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